NEW: At least three GOP lawmakers took advantage of a decades-old rooftop solar credit that'll expire in January due to Trump’s megalaw, E&E News has found. They all support ending the perk that sliced thousands of dollars off the cost of installing their panels. www.eenews.net/articles/mee...

NEW: Trump’s crackdown on immigrant work visas is spurring a Wall Street hiring boom … *in India.* www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

He beat the wrap.

Holland & Knight has now acknowledged that it began working for Stardust on Jan. 8. The solar geoengineering startup's lobbying team includes former Rep. Ron Klein, a Democrat from Florida. lda.senate.gov/filings/publ...

Ten years after leaders adopted the landmark Paris climate agreement, it faces promise and peril. It doesn't help that one of its original advocates is now trying to tear it apart. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

Scoop: Stardust Solutions, a startup seeking U.S. government contracts to cool the planet, has quietly begun lobbying on Capitol Hill. "We're informing members of Congress about our work and the need for appropriate and robust oversight," the CEO said. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

The fact that Democrats won both elections yesterday for the Georgia Public Service Commission is remarkable enough (no Democrat had won a non-federal statewide race in GA since 2006). But both won by a margin of 63% to 37%. In Georgia. results.sos.ga.gov/results/publ...

In an op-ed for TR, @davidkeith.bsky.social & @danvisioni.bsky.social voice deep concerns about Stardust & other for-profits racing into solar geoengineering — and asserting claims that, they argue, the science doesn't support.

“I felt like, being in conservative politics, there would be more, like, masculine men in the conservative movement,” said a 29 year-old Republican woman looking for love in DC. “And I find that a lot of them aren’t as masculine as I would have hoped.” www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...

AI agents tried to do graphic design, video editing, game development, and administrative chores like scraping data. "Even the best could perform less than 3 percent of the work, earning $1,810 out of a possible $143,991," writes @willknight.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/ai-age...

The idea that Bowdoin College is one of many schools that have become "feckless workshops for leftist political orthodoxy" because it offers a degree in Africana studies is belied by the data. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/u... Nearly all of the top major at Bowdoin are related to finance or science.

The chief of staff of Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kansas) lives in central Virginia, 190 miles from the Capitol. Marshall has previously sponsored legislation to curtail federal employees' ability to work remotely. "I'm against teleworking from home," he said last year. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

On Oct. 15, the Post's editorial board heralded the military's push for a new generation of smaller nuclear reactors. But it didn't note that Amazon owns a stake in small nuclear developer X-energy and that Bezos has invested in a Canadian venture pursuing nuclear fusion technology.

A Swedish electric boat maker is trying to break into the U.S. at a time of growing protectionism and waning support for clean tech, with a president who once warned that battery-powered vessels can electrocute passengers and expose them to shark attacks. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

Cat 5 (175 mph peak winds) Hurricane Melissa is just a few hours from making landfall in Jamaica as its strongest storm on record. Storm is stronger than Katrina (at peak) and the strongest ever recorded in Atlantic so late in the season. More info: www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025...

A former Lukoil executive said the move could see the company’s revenues and profits plummet by “about 30 percent,” as it is forced it to sell three refineries and around half of its roughly 5,000 petrol stations worldwide. “Lukoil is finished,” they told POLITICO. www.politico.eu/article/russ...

"At first glance, it might look like the US has exited the climate fight. ... But don’t be confused: America is still in the arena; it’s just fighting for the other side."

“…a furloughed Labor Department employee in Texas said she had been going from room to room inside her home in a San Antonio suburb to see what she could sell to help make ends meet.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/u... This is the facade of the Labor Department headquarters in D.C.:

👀 The AFGE, the largest union representing federal workers, is officially calling for the end of the shutdown: “Unfortunately, shutdowns have become a recurring tactic in Washington. But there is no ‘winning’ a government shutdown,” AFGE’s president said www.afge.org/article/its-...

“More than 41 million depend on the monthly payments, according to the USDA. In some states, like New Mexico, dependence on the program is as high as 21% of residents, it said.”

Alex Ovechkin on his postgame beer habit: “Why not? You have to live your life.” 🍻 to the Great Eight! wapo.st/4hvYiTB

A D.C. police report described 88-year-old Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, the oldest member of the House, as having the "early stages of dementia" and said she has a caretaker with power of attorney. www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/d...

Trump wants to add a 90k-square-foot ballroom to the White House and is taking down the East Wing to do it. Watch our Heather Richards explain the project and the backlash.

In just seven months, Canada went from elbows up to ad down.

Tech bros betting on blotting out the sun. What could go wrong www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Conservative groups are working the White House, Homeland Security, DOJ to go after prominent environmental organizations. It's part of an effort to link progressive groups to Antifa, despite the lack of evidence. Stripping away nonprofit status is only 1st step. www.eenews.net/articles/gre...

Stardust's new investors include the billionaire Chris Sacca and the Agnelli family, an Italian industrial dynasty. The startup plans to spend the cash on "controlled outdoor experiments," the CEO says. But critics remain skeptical of its business plan: "I don't think that is, at all, reasonable."

Past week: @wsj.com $TAP $RIVN $TGT

Latest model projections regarding #Melissa are painting an increasingly dire scenario for Jamaica and possibly western Hispaniola (esp. Haiti) in terms of widespread risk of catastrophic flooding from exceptional rainfall amounts--possibly exceeding 3-4 feet (30-40+ inches).

At a private conference, Bill Gates, John Arnold and other top climate VCs decided to see if synchronized investments could break the logjam for new energy projects. Some of the firms they're backing: storage firm Form Energy and fusion company Type One Energy. www.axios.com/2025/10/23/b...

“Never trust a chinaman or Indian,” wrote Trump's pick to lead the Office of Special Counsel, an agency that investigates federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination claims. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Many parents are now are forgoing minivans for greener alternatives: cargo bikes. They have been around for decades, but the advent of the electric bike motor has made them much more popular. n.pr/3WJyZn9

RFK Jr. is planning to investigate climate and weather control, and is expected to create a task force that will recommend possible federal action, according to a former agency official, an internal agency memo, and a consultant who helped with the memo. www.cnn.com/2025/10/16/h...

We wanted to know what it was like to own a Cybertruck. So @zoeschiffer.bsky.social went to the desert got this absolutely amazing quotes (and Michelle Groskopf took the pictures!) www.wired.com/story/owning...

Why do US infrastructure projects cost so much & take so long? Consider the Hudson rail tunnel: 1995—Studies 2009—Construction 2010—NJ Gov Christie kills it 2011—Project relaunch 2015—Fed support 2017—GOP Congress kills funding 2021/22—Biden funds it 2023—Construction 2025—Trump claims to cancel it

“A market crash today is unlikely to result in the brief and relatively benign economic downturn that followed the dotcom bust,” writes the former IMF chief economist “There is a lot more global wealth on the line now” econ.st/3Ja2WJX

NEW: A significant gap in weather balloon coverage in western Alaska, caused by Trump admin cuts to NOAA/NWS, may have hurt the forecast accuracy for the deadly storm there over the weekend. www.cnn.com/2025/10/14/w...

"Two things can be true at the same time. Bets on AI are going to cause financial calamity. And AI is going to change the world," writes @bethanymclean.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

MOODY’S: Twenty-two states are either in a recession or on the precipice of a downturn. 👀 @axios.com 🇺🇸 www.axios.com/newsletters/...

Speaker Mike Johnson shrugged off reports that his district could lose a major climate project, according to a DOE cancellation list circulating on the Hill. "I haven't seen it yet," he told E&E News. "I've been a little busy on the government shutdown." subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

JUST IN: A federal judge has granted the New York Times’ demand for a list of Elon Musk’s security clearances. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Strong defense of organized labor from one of Trump's top Silicon Valley supporters.

Another month of US transit agency data is just in, and DC's WMATA remains the fastest-growing major US transit agency, with ridership up 13% compared to last year King County Metro (Seattle) & SEPTA (Philly) have also performed well, while LA Metro & NJTransit have lost riders

The government’s own data rebuts Trump Admin claims that wind and solar are driving up electricity prices, Politico reports share.google/RTIXPPQMXrTH... “[T]he data say pretty much the opposite” of Trump & Secretary Wright’s claims.

There were hints bsky.app/profile/corb...

Over the weekend, Trump's deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller repeatedly attacked judges, calling them part of an "organized terrorist attack" on the US government.... On Saturday, the home of a judge who ruled against Trump, went up in flames time.com/7323442/sout...

Energy Secretary Wright and Interior Secretary Burgum have both cited "pollution" from offshore wind turbines as one of the reasons they need to be scrutinized or shut down.

I live in Ward 4, Pinto represents Ward 2, but this showed up in my mailbox. When a DC council member sends mailers to residents who aren't her constituents... she's definitely eyeing higher office.

New Washington Post poll on who voters blame for the government shutdown: